Opera Mini page views grow 255% year-over-year

More than 23 million mobile subscribers used the Opera Mini web browser in March, representing a 12.1 percent month-over-month increase and a 157 percent year-over-year leap, according to Opera Software's latest State of the Mobile Web report. Opera Mini users viewed 8.6 billion web pages last month, a 17.4 percent increase over February 2009 totals and a 255 percent jump over March 2008. In total, Opera Mini served 148 million MB of data to handsets worldwide in March, up 19.3 percent compared to the previous month--data in Opera Mini is compressed 90 percent on average, but if this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed nearly 1.4 PB of data last month.

In the U.S., Opera Mini page views increased 118 percent in March, with the number of page views per user averaging 195. Unique user growth in the U.S. has jumped 16 percent since March 2008. The BlackBerry 8330 yielded more Opera Mini page views among U.S. users than any other device last month, followed in descending order by the LG CU920, the BlackBerry 8130, the Samsung SPH-M800 and the Samsung SPH-M810. Google remains the most visited mobile web destination in the U.S., followed by Facebook--MySpace, Wikipedia and The New York Times round out the top five.

For more on Opera's March 2009 State of the Mobile Web Report:
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